I'm referring to publicly available versions of both engines. Yes of course Komodo has improved since K6. Aser is using K6, so that was the context of my observations. Yes that is what I thought. Komodo has made a lot of progress since Komodo 6 so the fairst compairson is whatever SF version was av...

Thanks for that match, that is interesting. Longer time control on a recent Intel CPU, and Komodo sneaks ahead. But, it still gets beaten by Stockfish. Which version Komodo and SF are you talking about? I'll bet you are comparing the most cutting edge SF dev version against some ancient version of ...

The downside of all of this is that it's now possible for fan-boys of either program to manipulate the results. For example if you were a big fan of Komodo leave Houdini and Komodo at the default settings but it you want to improve Houdini's performance you can optimized the setting to improve its ...

I don't believe it would help H3 on Ingo's list, on the contrary. There are too many weak opponents (300Elo weaker) so high contempt there brings more points overall (more wins instead of draws) than what H3 looses against SF and Komodo (there it has rougly 6% of the games as losses that would be d...

I don't believe it would help H3 on Ingo's list, on the contrary. There are too many weak opponents (300Elo weaker) so high contempt there brings more points overall (more wins instead of draws) than what H3 looses against SF and Komodo (there it has rougly 6% of the games as losses that would be d...

Hi everybody :), suppose I got convinced my engine does better in very complex positions (wich it does not) and I want my engine to prefer positions with many queens for example. since the root_ply=1, I do the following in the eval: //some_weight could be 10 for example (pawn=100, queen=1000), //WQ...

I think that good result against weak opponent can also be explained by lack of weaknesses so you do not lose against weak opponents. I do not say that it is part of the explanation for houdini's good results and I do not know. For example a program that does heavy pruning may lose games against we...

Don wrote:
Komodo has a contempt of only 7 ELO - the idea is not so much to "beat up" on weaker programs but just to offset the white advantage a bit and give Komodo some incentive not to take a quick draw.